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Can partiicle flow do the same as parray
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17 Jul 2005In other words, with Parray I can use an object to create fragments of it as particles, can I do that in PFlow and how.
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18 Jul 2005You kind of have to do a workaround if you want to do that with PFlow (at least, I haven't been able to find an "object fragments" feature myself). To do it, you must create a group of "fragment" objects, which you will then tell PFlow to use as its particle type. When emitted, PFlow will then choose a random object out of the group you made for each particle, thus giving the illusion of lots of different fragments.
I wrote a tutorial on how to do exactly that on my website
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18 Jul 2005won't give the effect i want, i really need my object to break in real fragments
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18 Jul 2005If you need the object to fragment like that is there a real need to use PFlow?
What is it that you are working on? If we know, there's a better chance we can give you some advice -
18 Jul 2005Well then PFlow won't work for ya. Might I suggest something more accurate like Reactor?
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18 Jul 2005What I think I will do is use parray to make my peices and then use reactor to make my object explode using those peices
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18 Jul 2005i can think of a good way to do it. use parray, make it start at frame zero, then stop at frame 1. as it will be just barely beginning to crack, you can then go into edit mesh, break up each individual fragment into seperate objects and then group them as a frag_object in reastor. so they stay together in realtime until they come into collision with something in thew reactor physics.
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18 Jul 2005
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19 Jul 2005Hey that is a cool idea ridestowe! I wasn't aware you could convert particle objects to editable meshes
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19 Jul 2005T I do it all the time with snapshot, an example if I do drops of water on an object and I don't want them to move I convert them to mesh and it becomes a bit faster to render
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19 Jul 2005har har, i didnt even know if that would work. glad it did though!
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25 Jul 2005I found a tutorial about this subject while looking for gardening supplies.
I think it's relevant:
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26 Jul 2005thx cameron, saw that one but the peices are not the shape of the teapot thats why I use a parray to break it first
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26 Jul 2005wait cam u found that tut while looking for garden supplies? wha? how?
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